Sentences with phrase «into electric current»

Wireless chargers (also known as «inductive charging») typically use an induction coil to create an alternating electromagnetic field from within a charging base station, and a second induction coil in the portable device takes power from the electromagnetic field and converts it back into electric current to charge the battery.

Up to 23.5 % of solar energy gets transfer into electric current to charge your devices.

It acts as a brake and turns into a generator, converting movement back into electric current.

It is not an engine that converts heat to work, with efficiency limited by temperatures of reservoirs (see The Energy Advocate, November, 1997), but rather one that converts the electrical potential energy of the atoms into an electric current directly.

Power - ups include a double - jump, a dash that can be performed midair, a turret, the ability to turn yourself into electric current, and a few more abilities that open new areas.

While the car is on the move, the electric drive itself converts kinetic energy into electric current in deceleration mode and during braking and feeding this energy into the battery.

While the car is on the move, the system converts kinetic energy into electric current in deceleration mode and during braking, feeding this energy into the lithium - ion battery, which is located underfloor.

This sequence relieves the combustion engine from the task of converting some of its fuel energy into electric current, and thus enables the engine to provide more power directly to the rear wheels.

While the car is on the move, the electric drive itself contributes to a favourable energy balance through recuperation, by converting kinetic energy into electric current in deceleration mode and during braking and feeding this energy into the battery.

These solar cells utilise the photosynthetic properties of microorganisms such as algae to convert light into electric current that can be used to provide electricity.

In terms of consumer applications, high - purity graphene could also be a great option to build efficient thermoelectric devices that convert heat into electric current (and vice versa) with little energy loss — for instance, creating lightweight circuitry woven into clothes that turns body heat into charge for our smartphones.

One of the difficulties involved in developing thermo - electric systems that convert heat into electric current is the need for materials exhibiting high electrical conductivity but low thermal conductivity, which is only possible with complicated crystal structures.

The latest electric vehicles use lithium - ion batteries, in which lithium ions move from anode to cathode (negative to positive), transforming chemical energy into electric current.

The resulting composite was able to convert heat which would otherwise be lost as waste into an electric current over a broad temperature range, going down to room temperature.

It converts the light into an electric current which is registered by the X-ray apparatus.

In a thermo - photovoltaic device, external heat causes the material to glow, emitting light that is converted into an electric current by an absorbing photovoltaic element.

Scientists have converted a gentle flow of gas directly into an electric current by flowing common gases like oxygen, nitrogen, or argon over a special kind of semiconductor.

Shankar Ghosh (left) and Ajay Sood show some of the equipment they used to turn gas into electric current.

More than 80 % of the incident visible sunlight was photoelectrically converted by this composite system into electric current available for the hydrogen generation,» says Schedel - Niedrig.

Another big drawback of solar power is cost: The silicon wafers that absorb sunlight and turn it into electric current can run upwards of $ 130 a pound because of a complex fabrication process that involves melting silicon, letting it crystallize into large ingots, and cutting it into thin wafers.

A coil in the base unit creates an electromagnetic field that interacts with a coil attached to the car, which converts it back into an electric current.

Blowing up enemies is effective, but so is knocking them into fans, flame pits, over cliffs and into electric currents.

They are very weak to electricity, as spinning them into electric currents instantly defeats them (with the exception of Topmaniac).

Not exact matches

In the 1890s, naturalist Alexander von Humbolt, knowing that the muscles of animals had been made to contract via an electric current, put wires into his own open wounds in an attempt to do the same.

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

RW: With the current interest in buying electric cars, plus more wind turbines being built and growing Chinese infrastructure, does this mean the fundamentals are falling into place for rising copper prices and copper company share values?

A $ 35,000 sticker price already puts the Tesla 3 into the price range of current - generation electric vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt.

An electric current will not only heat a hybrid metamaterial, but will also trigger it to change state and fade into the background like a chameleon in what may be the proof - of - concept of the first controllable metamaterial device, or metadevice, according to a team of engineers.

Using electrical measurements he collected during the eel attacks, Catania came up with an equation to estimate the amount of electric current flowing from the eel into his arm.

Here, wires carry electric current into bottles filled with water and microbes.

Catania placed his arm in a tank with a 40 - centimeter - long electric eel (relatively small as eels go) and determined, in amperes, the electrical current that flowed into him when the eel struck.

Moreover, the neural therapies currently available — psychoactive drugs and stimulators that send electric current deep into the brain — are blunt instruments.

The free electrons in both BP and gold nanoparticles are then transferred into the LTO semiconductor, where they act as an electric current for water splitting.

One of the simplest ways of obtaining hydrogen is electrolysis: an electric current splits water molecules into their constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

Because the cells are oriented inside the electric organ like a series of batteries piled into a flashlight, the current generated by an activated cell «shocks» any inactive neighbor into action, setting off an avalanche of activation that runs its course in just two milliseconds or so.

To restore the reefs, latticed steel structures are lowered into flagging reef habitats like the one at right and exposed to electric current.

At the same time, an electric field aligned along the current is responsible for converting magnetic into kinetic energy, firing out particles like a slingshot.

Scientific instruments around the world, patiently recording minute changes in Earth's magnetism, suddenly shot off scale, and spurious electric currents surged into the world's telegraph systems.

Electrodes are surgically implanted into or on top of target nerve fibres, ready to sense electrical signals from neural activity or to deliver electric current that mimics the language of the nervous system.

To turn these yarn - like structures into artificial muscles — a catch - all name for materials that can contract or relax in response to an electric current or temperature — Voit needs to make them more powerful.

Electric current from the vehicle's generator creates plasma — hot, electrically charged atomic fragments — that transforms diesel into a hydrogen - rich gas that then scours pollutants from the vehicle's exhaust - treatment system.

When sunlight hits the electrode, it generates an electric current that splits the water into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen.

To localize the source of his seizure and identify which nearby tissue could be surgically removed without major loss of function, Parvizi's team implanted so - called subdural intracranial electrodes into Blackwell's brain that would not only monitor neuronal activity but could also apply electric current and so stimulate the adjacent part of the brain.

The composite material showed excellent heating properties, producing heat as electric current was passed through the silver nanowires, even when bent repeatedly or when rolled up into a tube.

While some engineers are dragging solar energy into the big time, others are getting small: They have hit upon a novel phenomenon that creates an electric current in nanotubes, hollow microscopic structures made of carbon atoms.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

This process could form the basis of a practical solar - energy storage system, Nocera says, in which electric current from a solar cell passes through water to the catalyst, breaking the water into oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis.

An applied electric current splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen, and under the right conditions, lithium or potassium then acts as a catalyst to absorb energy and collapse hydrogen's electron orbit.

To melt only the ice layer immediately in contact with the surface, he has developed a way of pulsing electric current into the heater in 1 - millisecond bursts.